{"id":978,"date":"2022-12-08T16:25:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=978"},"modified":"2022-12-08T16:25:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:25:51","slug":"the-fifth-makara-in-tantra-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=978","title":{"rendered":"The fifth makara in tantra practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I translated a small part of the Experience in Spiritual Practice (\u0938\u093e\u0927\u0928\u093e \u0915\u0947 \u0905\u0928\u0941\u092d\u0935), the book by Rameshchandra Sharma. I think this information will be useful for many practitioners to understand the maithuna<\/em> topic in Tantrism. It is necessary to practice the maithuna<\/em> ritual when the sexual energy stagnates in the area of the m\u016bl\u0101dh\u0101ra<\/em> and sv\u0101dhi\u1e63\u1e6dh\u0101na<\/em> cakras<\/em>. When the ku\u1e47\u1e0dalin\u012b<\/em> ascends, the practice with it becomes a form of yoga<\/em>, which is mainly contemplative. Of course, these boundaries are very relative, however, there is a general principle of connecting the two poles in order to sublimate our vision and energy. Here is the text:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fifth of the Five Makaras<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In tantric s\u0101dhan\u0101<\/em><\/em>, the practice of pa\u00f1camak\u0101ra<\/em> is found. Practice with madya<\/em> (wine), m\u0101msa<\/em> (meat), etc., it can also be done with their substitutes. In the pa\u00f1camak\u0101ra<\/em>, the fifth is associated with the sense-oriented p\u016bj\u0101<\/em><\/em>, which is known as maithuna<\/em>. In essence it leads to the regulation of the semen. Maithuna<\/em> is also called “lata<\/em>–s\u0101dhan\u0101<\/em><\/em>“, it is a special practice for awakening the sv\u0101dhi\u1e63\u1e6dh\u0101na<\/em>–cakra<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Often after the awakening of the ku\u1e47\u1e0dalin\u012b<\/em>, when v\u0101<\/em>yu<\/em> (energy) rises to the sv\u0101dhi\u1e63\u1e6dh\u0101na<\/em>–cakra<\/em>, k\u0101ma<\/em> (passion), ascending there, begins to transform into what we know as yoga<\/em>–s\u0101dhan\u0101<\/em><\/em>. Through the identification of a woman with Dev\u012b<\/em> (Goddess) and himself with \u015aiva<\/em>, the practitioner leaves the gross states of the physical body, and his spirit and consciousness are directed to the sphere of spiritual consciousness. This often happens when practicing a mantra<\/em> with pr\u0101\u1e47\u0101y\u0101ma<\/em>. The power in the sv\u0101dhi\u1e63\u1e6dh\u0101na<\/em> or ma\u1e47ip\u016bra<\/em>–cakra<\/em> begins to intensify and the practitioner through asceticism becomes an \u016brdhvareta<\/em> \u2013 one, whose ascending sexual power is sublimated. Near the ma\u1e47ip\u016bra<\/em>–cakra<\/em> (just below it) in a woman is the womb (garbh\u0101\u015baya<\/em>), which is the most important area in their body.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, from the sv\u0101dhi\u1e63\u1e6dh\u0101na<\/em>–cakra<\/em> to the ma\u1e47ip\u016bra<\/em>–cakra<\/em> there is a point of two poles, the connection of the spiritual and the physical. and through the practice of japa<\/em> you connect these centers in a pure s\u0101<\/em>ttvic<\/em> state. In a state of full bloom of power, at the beginning of the practice, you use a special method, thanks to which the power increases and moves further in the direction of the an\u0101hata<\/em>–cakra<\/em>. Mental worship is the essence, thanks to which everything basic happens there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the daily p\u016bj\u0101<\/em> you can invoke the Goddess into a red flower (yellow in the case of Bagal\u0101mukh\u012b<\/em>), and invoke \u015aiva<\/em> in a white flower. Place the flower where the Goddess is on top of the white flower of \u015aiva<\/em>, that will be the symbol of vipar\u012bta-rati<\/em>, symbolically connecting \u015aiva<\/em> and \u015aakti<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I translated a small part of the Experience in Spiritual Practice (\u0938\u093e\u0927\u0928\u093e \u0915\u0947 \u0905\u0928\u0941\u092d\u0935), the book by Rameshchandra Sharma. I think this information will be useful for many practitioners to understand the maithuna topic in Tantrism. It is necessary to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,4,83,19],"tags":[276,103,277,198,274,275,36],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tantra","category-texts","category-yoga","category-yogic-practice","tag-5ms","tag-kualini","tag-lata-sadhana","tag-maithuna","tag-pancamakara","tag-siva-sakti","tag-tantra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}